From the editorial: DFLers and Minnesota Republicans alike share the challenge.
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News Tribune Editorial Board | 11:00 am, Jan. 28, 2021 ×
A reliable internet connection has never been as critical as during the past 10 months or so with COVID-19 forcing hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans to work and attend school from home, all of them accessing the web, tapping away at their keyboards, streaming content, and sending and receiving messages.
Broadband has kept us connected and has kept our economy and lives at least limping along until the pandemic can give way to a return to something resembling normalcy.
So Minnesotans can greet this news from St. Paul during these first days of legislative session with optimism: Lawmakers are working on continued funding to keep pushing internet access deeper into the state’s rural reaches and to keep improving connection speeds everywhere.